Jeff Baker

Jeff Baker has amassed a rich depth of experience during his 40 years in the refinish industry. Jeff’s first two decades of experience included refinishing cars and planes; working for a refinish distributorship; and running collision repair shops. Since 2003 he has worked as a services consultant for AkzoNobel. He currently provides services support to more than 80 Acoat Selected shops. Jeff’s work focuses primarily on customer process enhancement; 20 group facilitation; conducting industry training; class development centered around employee retention and development. Jeff was elected into the Circle of Excellence for outstanding consulting performance 4 times from 2004 – 2012, and earned the AkzoNobel North America Customer Service Award in 2014. Jeff holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics.

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